Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Architect Eero Saarinen's General Motors Technical Center (TIME, July 2, 1956), 25 buildings on 330 acres of suburban land outside Detroit-a precision-machined campus of laboratories, offices and shops...
This week Chrysler Corp. will show off its 1959 DeSoto, a face-lifted model with a new grille and more of the Chrysler Imperial cast than the '58s. Though Chrysler did not reveal the price because the DeSoto will not roll out of the showrooms for another month, Detroit insiders said most automakers will follow Buick's lead: some decreases and some small increases...
...game go? Early last week, Ford called for a showdown. It laid a new offer on the 50-ft.-long bargaining table in the English Room of the Detroit-Leland Hotel. Within 18 minutes, General Motors and Chrysler gave the U.A.W. almost identical offers. It was one more warning to Reuther that the Big Three, bargaining together as never before, might take some drastic action such as a shutdown or delay in bringing out new models if the U.A.W. went through with plans to strike Ford. Reuther plainly could not afford to fight the united front. It would break...
...that U.S. industry invested in new plant and equipment in the past three years is coming into production. Steadily rising labor costs have forced industry into a major drive to produce more with fewer workers, placing new emphasis on automation and efficiency. Last week's wage boosts in Detroit (see State of Business) will accelerate the automakers' drive to cut back. Said a vice president of a major steel company: "Labor fails to understand the fact that the more expensive labor gets, the more incentive there is to eliminate it. It costs us $25 a day for every...
Planners have long known that a far better answer to downtown blight is to attract higher-income families back to town. Many cities have pondered how to do this, and some have tried. In one of the best efforts so far, Detroit last week opened the first unit of Lafayette Plaisance University City, an all privately financed and operated $30 million development of 1,029 rental and 938 cooperative apartments in a onetime slum area. When completed. University City, only half a mile from the heart of downtown Detroit, will occupy a 55-acre park with six 22-story glass...